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Archive for February, 2009

How do you “fire” your most unprofitable customers? American Express is offering a$300 prepaid American Express gift card to entice select cardholders to pick up their marbles and go home. Cardholders with high balances and little to no spending or payment activity have been identified as high risks, particularly now as card issuers prepare to […]

How often do you make a change that you’re just sure that customers are going to love and are met with dead silence? Or worse, vociferous complaints? Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that US Airways is reversing its decision to charge for water and soda, saying that the customer backlash is overshadowing efforts to highlight […]

Some time ago there was a Country & Western song entitled, “Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares.” I don’t remember the lyrics or even who sang it, but this is the new catchphrase for United Airlines. In last week’s Wall Street Journal it was announced that United is dropping an Indian customer-call center that […]

This morning I had a rare opportunity to sit down at the breakfast table with my 17 year old daughter and catch up, just the two of us before anyone else awoke. She surprised me with her perception of what makes a good customer experience! She told me of her experience in trying to find […]

This week, Google announced their new Latitude software that finds and tracks people by using GPS systems and cell tower triangulation. It also uses Google’s mapping software for mobile phones. It is billed as a way to keep track of your friends and to let your friends keep track of you, ala the twitter microblogs […]

As I’ve mentioned before, there are a number of indicators that during this recession customers are trading downwards. What can you do to align yourself with this trend? If you look closely, you’ll see how you can take advantage of it so that you do two things: keep your low-end customers from trading down to […]

I was reading some research conducted by Harris in 2007 and published by RightNow that said that, “ 80% of respondents said they would never return to an organization after a poor customer experience.” Clearly those surveyed were consumers with a plethora of options available to them such that they could afford to be so […]